Linda Sarsour Quotes

Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon.

As governor, my chief responsibility is to keep our state and people safe, which is why I have decided to oppose Arkansas being used as a relocation center for Syrian refugees.

President Obama's own administration has publicly admitted that under the current framework, Syrian refugees cannot be vetted in a way that meets the rigorous security standards we rightfully expect.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.

I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.

Honestly, if they were Christian refugees coming in, I think the Obama administration would vet them a little more toughly.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

The current system for admission of refugees with family ties in the U.S. is fraught with inconsistencies and discriminatory practices.

Refugees are not terrorists. They are the victims of terrorists .... In my experience people with terrorist intent do not choose the reugee route to enter a country. There is too much scruiteny and takes too long. They use ofher ways.

The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

No one is going to persuade me that eight people arriving in South Shields is going to overwhelm the local system. I think that 25,000 refugees would be more in line with the U.N. That would be a substantive contribution.

America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.